Eros (2005)
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 67
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 44
Though Wong's short lives up to the promise of the title, Antonioni's is a serious disappointment.
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 17
Though Wong's short lives up to the promise of the title, Antonioni's is a serious disappointment.
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Three of the world's most gifted filmmakers offer their own unique perspectives on love and lust in this omnibus film. The initial episode, "The Hand," was directed by Wong Kar-Wai, and tells the story of Zhang (Chang Chen), a young, virginal dressmaker's assistant who finds it difficult to control his desire when he is sent to the home of Hua (Gong Li), a beautiful and refined prostitute, for a fitting. Steven Soderbergh directed the film's second story, "Equilibrium," in which Nick Penrose
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Cast
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Li Gong
Miss Hua -
Chen Chang
Zhang -
Tin Fung
Master Jin -
Robert Downey Jr.
Nick Penrose -
Alan Arkin
Dr. Pearl - Hal -
Ele Keats
Woman - Cecelia -
Christopher Buchholz
Christopher -
Regina Nemni
Chloë, Chloë, Chlo? -
Luisa Ranieri
The Girl - Linda -
Enrica Antonioni
Guest at the Restaurant -
Carin Berger
Guest at the Restaurant -
Cecilia Luci
Girl by the Cascade -
Vinicio Milani
Guest at the Restaurant -
Auntie Luk
Hua's Servant - Ying -
Zhou Jianjun
Hua's Lover - Zhao -
Sheung Wing Tong
Tailor -
Wong Kim Tak
Tailor -
Ting Siu Man
Tailor -
Yim Lai Fu
Tailor -
Shih Cheng You
Tailor -
Siu Wing Kong
Tailor -
Lee Kar Fai
Tailor -
Un Chi Keong
Hotel Concierge -
Karima Machehour
Girl by the Cascade -
Riccardo Manfredi
Barman -
Valerio Burroni
Waiter -
Pelino Tarantelli
Gardener -
Maria Bosio
Guest at the Restaurant -
Carla Milani
Guest at the Restaurant -
Ugo Quattrini
Guest at the Restaurant -
Jason Cardone
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All Critics (69) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (45) | DVD (6)
I guess one out of three ain't bad.
Top CriticThree smart filmmakers produce three whiffs on the theme of love.
It is fairly melancholy news that the works of two of Antonioni's admirers outshine the master's segment.
Eros comes nowhere near meeting the challenge of its title when compared to the increasingly lewd standards of our current cinema.
There's one good movie in here, sure. But unfortunately, it's over after the first 43 minutes.
A triptych only a film festival could love.
The rain still drips like tears in Wong's faintly lit alleyways, the paint in his narrow corridors continues to peel, the floral-print curtains in his '60s drawing rooms still billow in the breeze--but the colors have faded...
The chatter in the lobby, I predict, will be from people wondering how and when [Antonioni] flipped his lid... The film is a failure, no matter how grandiose its title or the names above it.
Three directors combine short films to form a triptych about love. The problem? The connections are tenuous at best. These are really three films marketed as sharing a theme.
Three is a crowd, and Wong and Soderbergh would have got along just fine without Antonioni there to wreck the marriage.
If there's a point to any of this, it's the supposedly therapeutic revelation that major female mystery lies in what you can discover by rifling through her purse.
If there's a point to any of this, it's the supposedly therapeutic revelation that major female mystery lies in what you can discover by rifling through her purse.
Anthologies by their inherent nature tend to be highly uneven. And Eros proves no exception, with the individual sections ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous.
An excruciating festival of middlebrow good taste.
An intriguing but ultimately frustrating triptych.
All three short films were minor works.
Feels like an experiment that you'd be happy to catch during a film festival ... right before you nodded off for a solid 90-minute catnap.
Eros demeure une expérience réussie en son genre, même si aucun des cinéastes invités ne réussit réellement à repousser les limites de son propre cinéma
confoundingly horrendous
The auteurist feast turns out to be a paltry spread, with one director on autopilot, another playing it safe, and the last apparently working on assignment for the European Red Shoe Diaries.
A trio of films by Antonioni and two other directors dealing with the subject of sexual fantasy and obsession.
No matter what caliber of talent is on board, omnibus anthology pictures are almost doomed to be uneven affairs.
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